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Born 1540 • Grenoble • France
Died 1576 (aged 36) • Orléans • France
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Claude Chappe
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Blanchard, Thomas
Thomas Blanchard
American inventor
Clément Ader.
Clément Ader
French inventor
Marc Séguin, the Elder
French engineer
Pierre-Émile Martin.
Pierre-Émile Martin
French engineer
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
French engineer
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie
French aviation pioneer
Claude-François-Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d’Abbans
French engineer and inventor
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot
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Georges Leclanché
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Hippolyte Fontaine
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François Hennebique
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Germain Sommeiller
French engineer
Alphonse Beau de Rochas
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Édouard Belin
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
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James B. Eads
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